Re: [libvirt] libvirt: python bindings

On 28 janv. 2010, at 19:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:52:45PM +0000, Sharadha Prabhakar (3P) wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm writing XenServer APIs for libvirt and trying to test it on virt-Manager. >> I need to build the libvirt python bindings for that. >> I tried this for libvirt. >> ./configure -with-xenapi -with-python > > You need to use -- not just - with arguments, eg --with-python > >> make >> make install >> >> I suppose this is supposed to build a .libs directory with libvirtmod.so in the ~/libvirt/python/ >> But I don't seem to have this at all after build. It was a clean build with no errors. >> I need libvirtmod.so to link with virt-manager. I'm using libvirt version 0.7.4 >> Can anyone help me with this. Am I missing something here > > Also make sure you have python-devel RPM installed (or equivalent) and > have not disabled shared libraries when running configure. When python-dev is not installed, configure currently (in version 0.7.5) disables the bindings: configure: Could not find python2.5/Python.h, disabling bindings and final output says Python: no When --with-python is provided, shouldn't we error out instead of disabling bindings more or less silently?